It’s a shame that it’s had to lose its apostrophe…
How wonderfully amused I was to learn today of the existence of the Apostrophe Protection Society!
Tory commentators love to pull us up on our grammar on this here blog, in fact after Thatcher I’ll wager its their second favourite thing to comment on. How aghast they must have been to note that their own Tory council leaders here in Brum are ditching that beloved bastion of the educated!
I know you guys aren’t that well acquainted with the Guild but if you want to start up a uni branch of the APS you only need twenty members, I can help with the forms if you like: just get in touch.
Speaking of education, I was most interested in the new Tory ad that informs us the UK is now 24th in the world at maths, (not sure what kind or level of maths as it didn’t specify), behind both Canada and Korea. Last time I checked Korea was in fact two separate political entities, North and South Korea; where pray does the UK come in the world geography championships? I personally am wondering why I ought to be surprised that both these places have reasonable education systems, but would like to congratulate them both all the same.
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“Speaking of educaion”
Do I get a prize for spotting the deliberate spelling mistake?
God dammit I spellchecked that, I actually remember making that correction! Gah!
No Chris you don’t.
According to your illustrious chair the prize could be:
“ten thousand grand”
That wonderful display of Labour’s grip on mathematics would fit neatly in to one of Browns budgets lol.
Also:
“Speaking of education, was most interested”
“I would personally am wondering”
“these places have reasonably education systems”
…. please tell me these were also ‘deliberate’ lol
Actually it was “eight thousand grand” I believe. I suppose while our faults may lay in our grammar, the tories have usually lay in their memory.
Yes, they were deliberate Dan, you can have second prize of only eight thousand grand! Now that particular grammar treasure hunt is over I think its time for me to remove the deliberate mistakes
haha
you know you have beaten a Tory in a debate when all they can do is criticize your spelling
…and you know you’ve beat a Labourite if they write a whole blog post on a Tory’s grammar
“its!” their second favourite thing to comment on.
Nope. It’s my favourite. I know several Tory councillors who aren’t happy with this decision, but I don’t think it’s going to cause any resignations.
PS – I doubt any North Korea data is available. The Tory slogan was assuming a strong knowledge of geography.
Brigid,
Can you help Russell and me?
We think that Martin’s Bday must be coming up soonish and it may be a significant one. If it is his shares it with Motown Records which seems apposite!
Best wishes,
Michael
Connor, baby. Where’s your blog gone? Have the Greens colesd you down for embarrassing them? Ask them to let you come back. We didn’t need to do election leaflets with the material you were giving us.Pleeeeease.
stay on topic people!